NATIONAL SEDDON MEMORIAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8155, 12 July 1906, Page 3

NATIONAL SEDDON MEMORIAL.

LATE iT TELEGKAMS.

MB ntl* ASSOCIATION Wiili.ioton. -'uly 11. A publis meetißg convened 1> - the Major of Wellington was held tins evening to consider the question <>f a memorial to the late Sight Hon. K. J. Seddon. The meeting was thoroughly representative in character. The Major, in opening the praceelings, •aid that those who had differed with the late Premier politically, would join with others in seeing that a fitting memorial to hi.a was erected. The Hon. T. K. Macdonald, M.L.C., then mOred " that a National Manorial be established to perpetuate the memory of Richard John Beddon, and that the Mayors and Chairman of all local bodies thronghMt the eolony be muted to join in the movement." There might, he said, b» divvgettce of opinion as to the form which the memorial should take, but opportunity would be giyen by the proposed organisation of a National Committee in the eity of Wellington for ereiyone's news to be considered. The committee, after considering all proposals, would submit to the people of the eolony a scheme lor the memorial and subscriptions. Personally he looted apoa tho proposed scholarships U being »ery noble. Cent inning, he said the coot of the statue in the Parliamentary grounds should be borne by the dtale. No doubt the Colony would ior the greater memorial, willingly taboariba up to a hundred thousand pounds. The motion was seconded by Dr W. B. Collins and supported by other Speakers and carried unanimously. A committee was set up,' with power to add to their number, all Mayors and Chairmen of local bodies to be members. An execatire was alio appointed.